Welcome to the Coffee Sketcher wiki
A living, visual map of the specialty coffee world. Every farm, auction, variety, person, and idea is its own note, and everything links to everything else — open the graph (right side, or bottom on mobile) and start wandering.
This is a learning tool first: dense on facts, honest about what’s still unverified, and always growing.
Start here
Auctions & competitions
- Best of Panama — where Geisha became the most expensive coffee on earth
- Cup of Excellence — the competition that invented the online green-coffee auction
- World Barista Championship — fifteen minutes, twelve drinks, coffee’s biggest individual title
- World Brewers Cup — the world championship for hand-brewed filter coffee
The famous story
- Geisha — the variety that rewrote coffee prices
- Bourbon — the founding variety most of the world’s coffee descends from
- Typica — the other founding variety, carried around the world by colonial trade
- Hacienda La Esmeralda — the farm that started it
- Don Pachi Serracín — the man who first carried Geisha to Panama
The institutions
- SCAP · Alliance for Coffee Excellence · Specialty Coffee Association · Coffee Quality Institute · World Coffee Research
The ideas
How this wiki grows
Each thing in coffee is a small note. You link two notes by writing its name in double brackets — that link becomes a line in the graph. Add a note, link it, and the map redraws itself. There is no end state; it just keeps growing.
Accuracy
This is an educational resource. Anything not yet cross-checked against a primary source is marked with a To verify callout. Don’t quote a number that only one source reports.
Official links
- Official site — Specialty Coffee Association
- Official site — Alliance for Coffee Excellence
- Official site — Cup of Excellence
- Official site — Best of Panama